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Best Answer: Us! We are captives of this evil world, captives from sin and the weak humannature that often are tempting us to sin. And we are captives sometimes of the sorrows and diseases and death of this world!
Jesus want to save us!

Well you seem to have nailed it with your quote. The poor are to be freed from the oppression of poverty and the lording over of the rich The broken hearted are to be freed from broken hearts The captives are to be freed from captivity The blind are to be freed from blindness Essentially, we are to be freed and healed from all the things that bind our humanity (yes including sin). This is the good news of Gospel, the battle for our liberty has begun, and has been decisively won. And soon we will all be free to be true genuine human beings, filled with the fullness of the spirit of God, as he intended from the beginning. I imagine this idea makes less sense to Christians than it does to anyone else; why do you suppose that is?

Here is some info that should bring some clarity. Read along with your bible to get the best understanding of it ;)

Christ Jesus, though, ‘felt pity for the crowds, because they were skinned and thrown about like sheep without a shepherd.’ (Mt 9:36) His declaring the good news to the poor and oppressed stood in such marked contrast with the attitude of the religious leaders of Judaism that it constituted one of the proofs that he was indeed the Messiah. (Mt 11:5; Lu 4:18; 7:22) To responsive ones it also opened up the glorious privilege of inheriting the heavenly Kingdom.—Mt 5:3; Lu 6:20.

Jesus’ appointment was from Jehovah himself. When he presented himself for baptism, “the heavens were opened up,” the account says, “and he [John the Baptizer] saw descending like a dove God’s spirit coming upon him [Jesus]. Look! Also, there was a voice from the heavens that said: ‘This is my Son, the beloved, whom I have approved.’” (Mt 3:16, 17) In his prehuman existence Jesus had served Jehovah for untold ages, but here he entered upon a new ministry. Jesus proved he was indeed God’s minister, serving both God and his fellowmen. Consequently, in the synagogue of his hometown of Nazareth, Jesus was able to take the scroll of Isaiah and read what is now chapter 61, verses 1, 2: “The spirit of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah is upon me, for the reason that Jehovah has anointed me to tell good news to the meek ones. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to those taken captive and the wide opening of the eyes even to the prisoners; to proclaim the year of goodwill on the part of Jehovah.” Then he went on to say to those assembled, “Today this scripture that you just heard is fulfilled.”—Lu 4:16-21.

Well since the fall of Adam all of humanity were under the control of Satan and therefore prisoners to sin,Jesus by His death on the cross defeated the kingdom of Satan and so those who believe in Jesus and follow Him, have been released from the snares of the evil one and are free.
God bless.

Anyone and everyone who is in the grips of sin:
Be they drugs,alcoholism,lusts,perversions,
sexual immorality,gambling,stealing,lying,
cheating,acts of violence towards themselves
and others,astrology,the occult,witchcraft,
hustling:con artists,scam artists,drug dealing.
Those involved in violence: murderers,rapists,
thieves,strong-arm robbers,hit-men.
Those involved in sexual perversions:
pedophilia,necrophilia,
beastiality,prostitution,
domination.All of this
is a form of bondage,and captivity;
Jesus came to set those in bondage free.
There are many more that I did not put into my answer;
not because they are not covered (they are),but only
for the limitations to space,and people's attention-spans.
a servant of the King